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HOUSEHOLD. A Girl's flagellum. A girl’s dressing‘room is a sure index to her character and habits. A clever woman assertlad lately that she could gain a better knowledge of one of her own sex by an in- spection of her dressing room than after a actual acquaintance of years, says the New York Press. "when one of mysons announces his en~ gagement I leave no stone untamed tohave the girl under my eye for her morning and evening toilet. She is judged accordingly, and from what I see I can pretty well guess: the sort of a wife she will make. How so? Because we women think a thousand times moreof such details than you men, and every thrifty or slovenly trait is sure to crop out then. \Vhy, I could make a black and white list for m marryin men friends from this meth , that won d prove a safe guide to future happiness in wedlock. For. instance, the girl’s own room is almost an- fallable indication of her tastes and neces- sities. I do not mean silver-mounted toilet articles, a lace-draped dressing-table, or full-length mirrors. They are well enough if she can afford them, but the first things to note are her books and pictures, her toilet articles. It is worth while catching a glimpse of her closets and drawers, as they sit volumes for or against their owner's tidness. When gloves are rolled in a hard knot. veils jammed undersalve pots, ribbons tumbled in with powder and hair pins, be- ware. That kind of thing is eloquent of curl-papers at the breakfast-table, muddy coffee and cold biscuit to come. ” To Set a Table. Breakfast being the plainest meal of the day, the arrangement of the table, should always be simple. The cloth should be spotless. At each erson’s seat place a knife ork, teaspoon or essertspoon, tumbler and napkin, and if fresh fruit is to be served, a finger bowl if there be no servant. If you have a waitress, she will place the finger bowls on as you finish with the fruit. If fresh fruit be served there must also be plac- ed at each seat a fruit knife and plate. The knives and spoons should be placed at the right and the forks and napkins at the left: the tumblers tobeat the point of the knives. There should be space between the knife and fork for a breakfast plate. Have the dish of fruit in the center of the table. Have a tray cloth at each end of the table. Spread little butter plates at the top of each plate. If individual salt and pepper bottles be used, place them at the side of each plate. If lar e ones place them at the corners of the ta le. Put four tablespoons on the table either in two corners. or beside the dishes that they will be used in serving. Put the carving knife and fork at the head of the table and the cups and saucers, sugar and cream, coffee-pot, hot-water bowl, etc., and the musk dishes at the other end. Country Girls in Town. If you who read this are a brown coun- try lass, and should find that your fate leads you to the city, carry with you all that you ave learned in the years of childhood and maidenhood on the old farm. You Will need it all in the feverish city ; the memory of sky and upland, the smell of the clover, the hum of the bees, the taste of the new ' milk, the breath of the kins, the strength which milking and butter-making have giv- en you, the knowledge of nature’s secrets; which lilac leaves out first, which oak is last stripped of its foliage, where the ground- sparrow hides her nest, when the black- berries are fit to make into jam! Bring the simple, healthy habits of early rising, of energetic work. of out-door exercise to your city home, for you will need them now more than ever before. They will help you in gaining an understanding of the best things city life can give you, the broader experience of men and idens, the love of art, the appreciation of literature. No matter holw rich you may become, never be waste- fu â€"â€" How to Make Good Tea~ Three things are necessary to insure ood tea: First, that the herb itself should be good; (we believe the English Breakfast tea is most generally popular); second, that the water should eat the boiling point when poured on the leaves ; and third,gthat it should be served freshly made. Tea should never be boiled. The English, who are a nation of tea-drinkers, are so particu- lar to preserve its first aroma, that it is sometimes made on the table two or three times during the meal, the contents of the pot being thrown out each time. In France little silver canisters of tea are placed on the table, where it is invariably made. One teaspoonful of the leaves is a fair portion for each person. Tea is better made in an earthen pot. The pot should be scalded out always before the leaves are put in. Water at the first boiling point is generally considered best. Receipts. Baowa‘ Tnicxasixo son. Sonsâ€"This is :asin prepared, is always ready, and will “In fact," she continued,’ V épupils Who passed 9' university matricula- i hard instrument into the ear passage is (fraught with danger of injuring the mem~ j sprinkle over a little salt and a very little pep r, and pour on some good vinegar. A E 81123: onion may be added if desired. . GRAHAM Pennixo,â€"Two cupfuls of gra- ham flour, one cupful of molasses, one cup ful of sweet milk, one cupful of chopped raisins. two teaspooufuls of soda. Steam three hours. Danica-rs Pia. â€"Whitcs of two eggs, four tablesposnfuls of cream, one large teaspoon- ful of flour, one eupful of cold water; flavor with lemon. Line a pie plate with pastry, pour in the mixture and bake at once. l Educational Matters in Ontario. The report of the Minister of Education for the year 1891, with the statistics of 1890 has been presented to the Legislature. It is a voluminous report. containing nearly 400 pages, of which the following summary will be found interesting :â€" The school population of the province, as ascertained through the assessors, was, in 1890 ; Boys, 239,519 ; girls, 237,046, or a total of 496,565. The average attendance of rural pupils was 47 per cent. of the regis- tered attendance, while in towns it was 59 per cent and in cities 62 per cent. _ The county of Holdimand furnishes the highest average. The other extremes are Halibur- . burton, Dufl'erin,Glengarry Gore Bay,North ’ i i which should {no he picked into small bits :i i i Toronto, Penetanguishene, Sandwich, Lon- don, Belleville and Brantford. Female still continue to gain on male teachers, being 69 per cent. of the entire number employed. The number of teachers . takin advantage of the normal schools is ‘ 1,776 tter than in 1877, and is 35 per cent of the total number of persons an aged in teaching the public schools. Water 00 pays the highest average salary, $447 to male teachers. Essex leads for female teachers with $334; Frontenac the lowest $290 for male, and Haliburton $204 for female teach- era. There are now 5,768 school houses in the province and as a rule they are opened and closed with prayer. The number of separate schools has advanced from 175 to 259 in 14 years, the ex enditure increasin $174,897 and the num er of teachers 235 uring the same period, while there has been a corre- sponding and gratifying improvement in the numbers in the different branches of instruc- tion. The high schools of the province now num- ber 120 and collegiate institutes 31. The a most gratifying feature in connection with; the high school system is the large increase I in the attendance, the numbers having more } than doubled in 14 years. The largest col- le iate institute is Hamilton, with an en- rolment of 677 ; then Toronto (Jarvis street), with 634 ; Toronto (Jamieson avenue), with i 454; London, with 441 ; Owen Sound, with f 423. The whole number of teachers em- ' ployed is, 452. In 1877 the fees collected l amounted to only $20,753; in 1890 the fees ' amounted to $82,614. The total number of ; tion examination was 482. Of these the Toronto (Jarvis street) Collegiate Institute : passed thehighest number (31),and Hamilton : the next highest number (21). The highest ! salary of a headmaster was $2,500 (Toronto, | Jarvis street) ; the average salary of head- ; masters for the province was $1,138 ; of as- ‘ sistsnt masters, $804 ; of all masters, 55892. i 0f the masters 183 were graduates of To-'. ronto University, 53 of Victoria, 37 of ; Queen’s 11 of Trinity, 2 of McGill and 4 of British universities. I The efforts made by the department to se- . cure the planting of shade trees and the cab ; tivation of flowers in the school grounds have been heartily supported by teachers and trustees. Arbor day has now become. one of the most interesting and profitable? holidays of the year. In 1885, 38,940; in i 1886, 34,087; in 1337, 28,057;in 1889, 25,715; in 1889, 21,281 and in 1890, 22,250 trees 4' were planted. Ina very few years every? rural school in the province will have its} shady bower, where the pupils can find shelt- i or from the sun and where their taste for the . beautiful in nature will find some gratifica- tion. ’ The total number of pupils attending the several classes of schools in 1890 (excluding ' colleges and rivatc schools) amounts to . 517,319, and t e total sum expended for all educational purposes in 1850 reaches the » high figure of “',284,980. This result is most! encouraging and speaks well for the educa- tional prosperity of the province. The following generaldirections to truant officers have been issued by the department: Each oflicer shall endeavor to procure the) attendance at school Lf all children in the : district assigned him, between 8 and 14 years, visiting them at their homes or places of employment, or looking after them ini the streets for this purpose, and he shall, by persuasion and argument, both with the children and their parents or guardians, and by other means than legal compulsion strive to secure such attendance. The officers shall not be employed to enquire into the occasional absence of pupils. When I a truant officer shall be unable, in a district assigned to him, to procure the attendance , at school of any child who is an habitual i truant, or who is required by the provisions of the law to attend school, it shall be the i i duty of such officer, after notice as requir- ed by the Act. to procure a warrant and arrest such child, who shall be brought for sugar, and five cupfuls of new milk and stir- .- HEALTH. road forâ€"mspepsos. I wishto tell the sufferer from aweak atomach how to 000% some things whigh s. yspepticcan eat. our 'ears my us- band was almost helpless3 withagd’yspepsia. He consulted two doctors from whom he learned that he could ‘not live a year.’ Every thing he ate caused great ' , until he tried a fresh egg, well beaten with a little sugar, a very little salt and nutmeg, over which was poured a teaenp two~thirds full boiling milk, stirring the egg constantly. He took this warm and could retain it without trouble. LaterI repared milk toast for hiui as follows: I) used stale, salt-rising bread, made from wheat middlings, cut in slices half an inch thick, toasted a nice brown in a brisk oven and soaked in sweet milk which has been boiled and slightly thickened with flour and seasoned with salt and butter. Another dish consisted of one cup of water and half a teaspoonful of salt, and butter. Another dish consisted of one cup of rice, well washed, putin a large granite basin with one cup of water and half a teaspoon of salt, and allowed to cook slow- ly until all the water was taken up in the rice. Then I added two tablespoonfuls of red it well, after which I baked it in a slow oven for several hours. The rest of the family liked this as well as he did, especially when served with sweet sauce. This is the way I made d speptic com- cake. I took one egg, one ta lespoonful of brown sugar, one-half teaspoonful of salt, oneohalf a pint of sour cream, one pint of sour buttermilk, three-fourths of a teaspoon- ful of soda and one teaspoonful of baking powder. I beatlthe egg and sugar together until very light, stir in the cream and salt, then the buttermilk, nextthe soda dissolv- ed in a little warm water, and make all into a stifi' batter with three parts corn-meal to two parts of fine flour into which the bakin powder has been sifted. I set the dish in the steamer, let it steam three hours, then fickle): it twenty minutes in a hot oven.â€"[M._ The Bar. The human ear is a much more delicate organ than most people suppose. tremely dangerous to interfere With it by use of earpicks, or any of the various instru- ments used for the purpose of cleaning it from wax. The wax is a natural secretion, and unless the ear becomes diseased it does not accumulate any faster than is necessary to protect the passage from the entrance of insects and various particles which might otherwise be forced in and tend to interfere permanently with the hearing. The great- est care is necessary in washin the ears of little children. They shoul be washed outside, but on the inside only as far as the finger wrapped in a soft towel will go. The practice of forcing a hair pin or any other brass and causing permanent deafness. Earache is a malady of childhood and causes most distressing pain. The simplest re- medy for it is to take a little cotton dipped in warm sweet oil and put it in the ear pas- sage. A danger that may arise from doing so simple a thing as this is that minute par- ticles of the cotton may be left in the ear. To prevent this, ' some physicians advise making a little wad of the cotton and wrap- ping it in the finest and thinnest linen cambric that can be found, and dipping this in warm sweet 011. In case of intense pain, a. few drops of hot laudauum or camphor may be used with the oil. When foreign bodies ct into the car they should be re- moved y syringing them out with warm water. To attempt to remove any thing from the ear passage by forcing an instru- ment in is a rash thing for any one except an aurist to undertake. The best medical practitioners refuse to treat affections of the ezitr or eye, but send their patients to speci- a ists. Bye Troubles. Inflammation of the conjunctiva or mem- brane which shields the front of the eyeball I from the air takes the rub of the eyelids, is indicated by the glued state of the eyes in the morning, and more especially by their bloodshot condition, the vessels being bright red in color, and winding aboutin great ir- regularity, with no discernible order or plan. Eyes are sometimes inflamed by being held too near the heat of a lamp, and relief may be obtained by shading the eyes with any old scrap of green paper, such as handhills are sometimes printed on. Weakness of the ciliary muscle, or an error of refraction, may be the cause of the evil. A refractive error might be corrected by proper spec- tacles ; and if the aching has increased under the use of the various glasses which have been tried, it points to a refractive error wrongly corrected as one cause of the trouble. Test each eye for astigmatism, and for long or short sight. Get properly suited with spectacles focussed for reading, writing and indoor work. And for the inflammation, wash the eyes with Goulard water ; also drop a few drops of the following lotion in the outer corner of each eye two or three times a day zâ€"Hydrochlorate of cocaine, 8 grams; boric acid, 3 drachms; glycerinc, 1 keep 0. ice time, besides which, it gives a trial before a magistrate having jurisdic- oz; elder flower water, 6 02.; and water to far richer avor than any other way of using flour thickening. Put into asmall saucepan half a pound of butter; when hot stir into it half a pound of very dry flour; stir this over the fire till a pale brown, taking great care it does not burn. One large tablespoon thickens a quart of soup. Russo Dovonsr'is. --In the morning take one pint of warm milk, one on ofsu ar,one half cup of yeast, a little t, an act a (ponge, making it rather thick. At night add one cup of sugar, one half cup of lard, and two cg? ; knead up and let stand until morning. n roll out thin, out round, and let stand on the moulding board till night. Fry in hot lard. Soon Arms Suoa'r Cans. â€"Pare and stew sour apples in a very little water until tend. er, then rub them through a seive; use no sugar or flavoring, but spread over a cake made with one quart o flour, one ands half teaspoonfuls of baking tablespoouful of sugar, one tab! nful of butter; kneaded soft and baked quickly. Serve with the following sauce: Sauce Fen Snoa'r Carinâ€"One int ands ‘ fiiur e ,' And pity on no human face, nfuls of vanilla. Let t e1 half of sweet milk, the yolks of three tablespoo milk come to a boil: then add the well. bzaten egg-yolks, sugar, and vanilla. powder, one , tion in the case. Redeemed. ll" GEORGE HORTON. Only a dying horse that lay Hard by the walk one August day, ' Punting his feeble life away. Sunstruck, and he was lying there At noon. with not: a stir of air From up or down or anywhere. Slowly he breathed in gas s and groans. g Couchiug his bruisrd and )attcrcd bones . Upon the cruel cobblestones. i For years along the dust road l He'd pulled his master‘s wavy load. , Urged on by brutal curse and good. ‘ Pitlcd and fricndcd now by none, 3 Because his usefulness was done, 1' Ho lay there dying in the sun. ,’ His twitching fleshwas torture-wrung, g Foam to his quivering nostrils hung. ; From parted lips lollcd out his tongue. Foebly at last he raised hisrhead. Opened his eyes for help that plead Struggled to rise. and fell back dead. And I. with shame for all my race. Beheld a throng surround the place. I turned awav. dcbased. defllcd. “’hen. lo. a chubby little child. On whom its mother fondly smiled. make 8 oz. Cold water should not be used for bathiu the eyes when inflammation is present. epid water may be used night and morning, keeping the eye carefully closed the while. Oatarrh- People who are subject to catarrhal ail' ments have special need to be particular in regard to their feet covering ; they should see to it that theirth are comfortably clad, their shoes should have substantial sales, and should come well up the ankles, and not be laced or buttoned tight. Light merino stockings or half-hose may be sufficient for warmth, but whenever by reason of much exercise the feet have become damp, and es- pecially if the leather has absorbed wet, it is wise for a change to be made in both stock lugs and shoes. Legitimate Use. “ No. sir,” replied the druggist. ”I can’t sell you liquor except for medicinal purposes or for use in the arts.” “ I want this for use in the arts." " In what way 2" “ I wish to paint the town red. " â€".â€"â€" Forty-three lives were lost during last : q 3, “I Wonderâ€"‘2' In this mornings 'mail, which was an irrlta hle profitless one in a business way. there was one any note near the bottom. from a tender. womanly heart in Manitoba. that had been blast and “ helped very much“ by One of a y hymnsâ€"and » somehowâ€"the friction and in» tation of thejaundiccd business correspondence ceased to vex mo and with a thrill ofjoy Paul's hope-text in that inspiring and deligbful letter of is to the people at Corinth rang in my ears zâ€"“ The things that are temporal. but the i unseen things are eternal." Tender, helpful. kindly well. From a stranger. far away. Tbou'rt a m ‘ refmm the Lord To my harass' heart today. When my thought gave truth a wing Sent it.o'er the lands afar Unto suffering souls to sing Of the Great All-Father‘s care,â€" Oft I wondered if its free Hopeful spirit some would learn ; If ’twould ever unto mo “ iih an " Olive-branch" return! . I I D I . So my soulsong found a rest , Like the ark-sent. wear dove 1 Found within one gentle mast Fellowship in God's dear lovol, Many another burdened one May have felt love’s thrill divine, In its faith or light or tone: They have given me back no sign. It was love that sent it out.- Lovo hat-h neither bond nor lackâ€" (Love csn~turn the world about) J, Only love can send it back. " Care I not for raise or blame: Let the war] its plaudits spare, But tisso‘y to have my name Shrined a one true mooher's prayer. I would rather win a smile From some child, with aheart aflame, Where my soul could rest awhile. Than the great world's fleeting fame. Oh. the world is all too much! False, and llckle is its praises ! Souls have soulsâ€"aloneâ€"ln touch : Hearts are love's immortal bays. Can I sing to reach your heart! Lead, inspire me by your word! 80 we each may do our part,â€" anh come nearer to our Lord. Prayer of thine may gain for me Sapient soul-realms all untrod. Whereâ€"fora“ eternityâ€" ' Some shall learn the love of God. “The Elms. LLEWELLYN A. Monmson. It is ex- Tomato. February 20. l . The Trystm’ Place! [Ducffor Male and Female Voices] Oh! weel we ken the trystin’ place, The trystin' place. the trystin place; Oh i weal we ken the trystin' p ace Where we g at gloamin' early! M. assie I meet my { F. laddio Where grows the noddin' ferns green. And where nae strangers ma be seen, Nor warlock. witch, or fa rllel there at e’en. Ohl weel we loc the trystin' place, The trystin' place, the trystin‘ lace; Oh! wccl we 100 the trystin’p ace, Where we meet at gloamm’ earlyl Its where the birds 11' cans: one sweet, Deon where two. windin' burnles mee There lovers find a safe retreat, - To tell love's tales fu' rarely! We'll ne’er forget the trystip' place, The trystin’ place, the trystin’place, We'll ne’er for ct the trystin' place. Where we inger’d late an’ early! A hundred years may come an’ go, Wi’ summer's heat an‘ winter's snow, An’ a' the rivers cease and flow, E'er we forget it fairly! Toronto, Can. Ghost at Miller's ford they say, Tacklctpco is down that way. Skcerc " ‘p” Hawkins half to deathâ€" Run so hard he lost his breath. , Made Joe Wimple's hoss take fright When out to see his girl one night. Bcen cuttin: on ere cvcr‘where, Give the neigh orhood askeer. “ I." says to 'cm one day, “Wisht that. ghost would come my way I’ll jes’ camp there on tho crickâ€" Stay there. too, through thin and thick, I would b’ juck ! 1" says I. “ If that "host would toddle by." 01' Ike 1 orris ’lowed. says he, “ You're as feard o' ghosts as meâ€" Couldn't hire you an way To go to the ford an stay When its dark and drizzlin: rainâ€"- Couldn’t tic you with a chain.” Ike's remark riled me some, :50 Ijes‘ got up. be gum! ' And cracked my lists and said : " You can use this 'cm; 01' head For a foot-ball. if I fail _ To make that ghost tuck its tall. I " says I, “ sure's I'm here, Never knowcd sech thing as fear. Ghosts can’t skccr me." says Iâ€" “ Don’t b'l'evc it. let ’cm try. Make ’cm think 'fore they git through That I’ve et a ghost or two.” Dark! Geo whiz! Couldn't sec Where the ol' road orto be. . Thinks I : “ Now, this is the time To make that host git and climb." Never said a s nglo wordâ€"- J es’ lumbcrod out for the ford. Got right near the wartcr gaitâ€" Madc up my mind that I’d waltâ€" Till Mr. Ghost got on a spree, Set his page to go for me. Dreckly ligand a funny sound, Quicker t. an wink. looked around, And there it was on the gate. Felt my hair raise up plum straight And the cold chills up my back, Turn and take the back'nrd track- Couldn't a-sung a. single note, Heart chock up in my throat. “ I." thinks I, “ I come to stay. Now, lllr. Ghost, come this we ." Sure enough. the blame thing ld. NValkcd the gate and 011‘ it slid. No ghost now at Miller's ford- Deadcr than a fros'-blt gourd. Yes. b' jucks ! the ghost is gone, One the folks was bettin' on. - And. a quecrcr thing. but true, Ever' word I'm tellln' you. Ike Morris' 01' wlntc dog. ‘ 'Speneo,” Hain't been seen in these parts since. He Envied Him. Whin Meg Malone. the witch. och hone l Wid oycs intoxlcatln', An' ll abrew wid honey dew Wh n she's artlskylatln'. Repllled me shalt. an' thin, to boot, strolled on me owld-timo cronsy. ~ 0i c'u‘dn't tell how molgb ty well 01 invlcd Tim Maloncy. An’ whin the presto at wlddcn' faysu Did tolc to lr so nately, An' in a cot eir mated lot Was sittlcd so completely. Oi'd nlver think of how they’d drhlnk The shwates of mathrlmony But love w'u'd shtart it in me heart To lnvy Tim Maloney. Well. Timmy dold, gin' 0i presolde In Mlstbrcss Meg s affections. An' toime has lint me many a hint To vary me radiations, But comes no day whln Oi'd not say, Wld heartiest euphouy --JOIIN IMRIE. The Ghost at Miller's Ford. ‘ Most of the Ts}; SIBBRIAN MINES." nowiac Cons-El: are 'h'eated. Now and againa telegram from St. Petcrr burg announces that certain Nihilists have been condemned to death, but that the Czar has been pleased to commute their son‘s)». to penal servitude in the mines of Siberia. To what misery the Imperial clemency cou~ demus the unhappy wretches is told by Mr. George Kennan. ' he mines he describes are those at Kara, and are the private property of the Car. for whose benefit they are work- ed. No more abominable places of human habitation could be imagined than the cells in which the convictsaro lodged. Mr. Ken- uan, who was accompaniedon his visit by the governor, thus describes them:â€" We entered, through a heavy plank door, a long, low, and very dark corridor, the broken and decaying floor of which felt wet and slippery to the set, and where the at- mosphere, although warm, was very damp, and saturated with the strong peculiar odour that is characteristic of Siberian prisons. A person who has once inhalodtliat odour can never forget it; and yet it is so unlike an other bad smell in the world that hardly know with what to compare it. To unaccustomed senses it seems so sat- urated with foulncss and disease asto be almost insupportable. I’Ve step ed across the threshold into a room about ' 4 feet long, 22feet wide, land8feet high, which con- tained twenty-nine convicts. The air here was so much worse than the air in the cor- ridor that it made me faint and sick. The room was lighted by two nearl square heavily grated windows with doubi' that could not be raised or opened, and there was not the least apparent revision anywhere for ventilation. The car was made of heavy planks. Out from the walls on three sides of the room projected low sloping wooden platforms about six feet wide, upon which the convicts slept, side by side, in closely packed rows, with their heads to the wall and their feet extended towards the middle of the cell. They had neither pillows nor blankets, and were com- pelled to lie down upon these sleeping. enches at night without removing their clothing, and without other covering than their coarse grey overcoats. The women were rather better off than the men as regards accommodation; but their cells were in the same insanitary con- dition. The floor was uneven and decayed, and in places the rotten planks had either settled or given way entirely, leaving dark holes into a vacant space between the floor and the swampy ground. The cells in the women’s prison had no furniture of any kind except the plank sleeping-platforms, which, of course, were entirely destitute of beddin . I did not see in either room a single pil ow or blanket. In these two cells were imprisoned forty- eight girls and women, six or seven of whom were carrying in their arms pallid sickly- looking babies. The escape of convicts is often winked at by the prison oflicials, who continue to draw. for weeks or months, the clothing and the rations to which the runaways would have been entitled. The flight commences when the warm weather sets in, and for two or three months an almost continuous stream of escaping convicts run from the Kara 1111:! settlements in the direction of Lake i a1. . The signal for this annual movement is 'ven by the cuckoo, whose notes, when first card in the valley of the Kara, announce the beginning of the warm season. The cry of the bird is taken as an evidence that an escaped convict can once more live in the forests ; and to run away, in convict slang, is to £0 to ” General Kukushka for orders.” ( o-koeshka is the Russian name for the cuckoo.) More than 300 men leave the Kara free command every year to join the army of “ General Kukuska ; ” and in Siberia. as a whole, the number of runaway exiles and convicts who take the field in response to the sum- mons of this po ular officer exceeds 30,000. are. convicts who “ go to General Kukushka for orders ” in the early summer come back to the mines under new names and in leg-fetters the next winter ; but they have never had their outin , and have breathed for three whole mont s the fresh free air of the woods, the mountains, and the steppes. We made a careful examination of ten prisons in the province of the Trans-Baikal, and in none of them did we find a bed, a pillow, or a blanket. . Everywhere the prisoners lay down at night in their greyovercoats on bareplanks, and almost everywhere they were tortured ' by vermin, and were compelled to breathe the same air over and over again until it seemed to me that therecould not be oxygen enou h left in it to support combustion in the ame of afarthing rushlight. Civilized human beings put straw even into the kennels of their dogs: but the Russian government forces men to work for ten or twelve hours a day in its East Siberian, mines ; compels them after this exhausting toil to lie down on a bare plank ; and then, to console them in their misery, tacks u a Ecri tural text on the grimy wall over tiieir ea 3. He Wanted too Much; Japhcthâ€"Mildred, will you be my wife '3 Mildredâ€"Well, not to-day. “ 0h, Mildred, how can you speak so flip- pantly ? ’ ‘ “ hiippantly? How do you su pose I could possibly be your wife today ? I sbquld want at least two weeks to get ready in. ’ . Unavoidabl a. Reporterâ€"“ Was that accident unavoid- able 2” Railroad President--“ Certainly, sir, cer- tainl . No one to blame. You see the watc iman had two crossings to look after, half a mile apart. You can’t expect a man to be in two places at ones, can you 1" An Unfortunate Blunder. Mrs. D'Avnooâ€"“ Oh, the awfullest thing has he posed! Clara de Style, who never could sign to look at any one in trade, has just discovered that the man she has mar- ried is a dry-goods clerk.” Mrs.‘ DFashionâ€"“ Horror! I should think she might have found him out by his talk.” Mrs. D’Avnooâ€"“ That’s just how the r girl was deceived. He never seemed to now anything about anything, and she ear in connection with the (.lrimsby Eng- . ‘ . Q .. - . . . . . Whin by his grassy mound I pass. ..“.f:.l.2;“.22?‘$:2.‘t§;* m””*&£'rs‘tl%',oo"“fszmrm“... turmeric,- Thu-breast.“ ................ ma... ................ .. .. mom'- . . t .' . on , - . 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